April, May & June

WHAT: April, May & June. World Premiere engagement of a new comedy-drama.

WHO: Written by Gary Goldstein. Directed by Terri Hanauer. Produced by David Hunt Stafford for Theatre 40.

April, May and June are fortyish sisters, born a year apart. They’re Jewish (although with one Gentile grandparent who made the best matzo ball soup). They’re temperamentally a bit different. April, the eldest, is the most dominant. Her marriage has crumbled beneath her husband’s infidelity. May, always conscious of being “the middle one,” has issues with her weight. June, the youngest, is a lesbian whose own partner has been wayward.

The three siblings have convened to pack up the old family home after their mother has passed away. She was the parent who had been most present in the women’s lives. Their father had been an alcoholic. Mother had endured and persevered.

Going through their mother’s possessions, the women come across items that will give them a shocking surprise. Everything they thought they knew about their mother and their family will be changed and impact their lives forever. How will these newly revealed developments affect their relationship with each other?

Ms. Hanauer’s stage directing credits include Café Society Father, Son and Holy Coach The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: A Comedy Drama Queens From Hell Collected Stories The Way You Look Tonight much more. She has also directed for television (Zane’s Sex Chronicles for Cinemax) and feature film (Sweet Talk).

Gary Goldstein is the playwright. His previous plays include Just Men, Curtain Call, Parental Discretion and Three Grooms and a Bride. He has also written the screenplays for the feature films If You Only Knew and Politics of Love, as well as numerous films for television, including The Wish List, Hitched for the Holidays, This Magic Moment, My Boyfriend’s Dogs, and Flower Shop Mysteries starring Brooke Shields, including Snipped in the Bud and Mum’s the Word. He’s also written for episodic television. His features and movie reviews appear frequently in the Los Angeles Times.